Family Quotes

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. (Quote by - George Eliot)

So if you have a grandma, Thank the Good Lord up above, And give Grandmama hugs and kisses, For grandmothers are to love. (Quote by - Lois Wyse)

A father in a canoe in which his baby is seated walks more carefully than on land. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)

Never brag about your ancestors coming over on the Mayflower; the immigration laws weren't as strict in those days. (Quote by - Lew Lehr)

My family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else. (Quote by - Dennis Quaid)

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . . (Quote by - Susan Lucci)

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

I am not of French extraction. Nor are my origins German. My father's forbears came from Northern Ireland, and my mother's family was Scottish. (Quote by - Paul Getty)

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track. (Quote by - Jerry Seinfeld)

My son has taken up meditation (Quote by - at least it's better than sitting doing nothing. (Quote by - Max Kaufman)

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now... (Quote by - John Lydon)

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. (Quote by - O. A. Battista)

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them and with them. (Quote by - William Saroyan)

A brother is a friend provided by nature. (Quote by - Legouve Pere)

It is not the talking that counts between friends, it is the never needing to say what counts. (Quote by - Shawn Green)

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. (Quote by - Kenny Ausubel)

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other (Quote by - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. (Quote by - Jane Howard)

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. (Quote by - Henri Amiel)